Re:The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spec...
by pdimitar on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:56PM
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> To get any reasonable performance benefit out of 32+ cores the code running on those cores would have to be >75% parallelized.
Exactly this, yes. But for that we need a language that enforces and guarantees pure functions and disallows global state mutation. For now C is king in systems programming but I wonder if certain chips are made with a very different idea from the get go, then can we have a systems functional language?
I also am not very informed on this front, never had enough time to dig deeper. (I did like the idea of the LISP machines several decades ago though.)
Exactly this, yes. But for that we need a language that enforces and guarantees pure functions and disallows global state mutation. For now C is king in systems programming but I wonder if certain chips are made with a very different idea from the get go, then can we have a systems functional language?
I also am not very informed on this front, never had enough time to dig deeper. (I did like the idea of the LISP machines several decades ago though.)